"God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows."

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Source : J.D. Greear (2011). “Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary”, p.187, B&H Publishing Group

J. D. Greear

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“You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.”

Source : "Never mind glass ceilings, what about glass skirting boards?". Interview with Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2003.
“Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of nature; for they made the Oceanus and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the Gods as being by water, to which they give the name of Styx; for what is oldest is most honourable, and the most honourable thing is that by which one swears”
“Music is my life and my life is music.”
“What's going to happen is that county council and the county executive will be able to blame the judge. I think that's what's going to happen -- they want to blame the judge for reassessment. That's not leadership, that's hiding.”
“In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.”
“Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.”
“Atheist, in the strict and proper sense of the word, is one who does not believe in the existence of a god, or who owns no being superior to nature. It is compounded of the two terms ... signifying without God.”

Source : Richard Watson (1832). “A Biblical and theological dictionary”, p.113
“I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.”

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